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Restoration Through Transformation
Let’s face it. Pretty much everything, as we know it, has changed. So much of what we believed to be true and invested in is collapsing before our very eyes. […]
Black Ballerinas in Picture Books: Rupturing the Color Line in American Children’s Literature
As a Black girlhood studies scholar, I pay close attention to picture books that portray Black girls. More specifically, I intersect dance studies and children’s literary studies in order to explore the representation of Black ballerinas in autobiographical and biographical children’s picture books.
Kularts & Alleluia Panis: Setting the Stage for Filipinx Diaspora Narratives
In a conversation about how she classifies her artistic practice, she told me that she does not consider her work to be “Philippine” dance, as that would be disrespectful to regional practitioners who undergo rigorous study, practice, and discipline that she as a choreographer and dancer who has livedmost of her life in the US has not undergone…
Letters to the Revolution: Guillermo Gómez-Peña
This letter was published as part of Letters to the Revolution – an online platform where leading artists and activists from marginalized communities were asked to write letters of strength […]
Craft in Context: Lineage, Mentorship and the work of Hope Mohr
“POSTMODERN DANCE SUFFERS FROM HISTORICAL AMNESIA, as each subsequent generation breaks with tradition and wants to forge uncharted aesthetic paths.” John Killacky’s argument in his article “Anna’s Postmodern Children” (In […]
A Decade of Difference; Voice of Dance Comes Into Its Own, Mar 2007
An overview of the online hub for dance’s development into an international web destination.
The Emperor’s Old Clothes?: Reflections on Thirty Years of the Ethnic Dance Festival
Upfront: here is my disclaimer and confession. I owe much to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (EDF), which marks 30 years of presenting this June. I have lived on […]
New Direction, New Perspectives: LEAP continues its mission
Megan Low performed her last plié for the San Francisco Ballet in 2006 when she was a “middle-aged” dancer of 27, leaving behind a fulfilling career as a member of […]
Grassroots to Cyberspace: Evolution of Dancing Earth
Birthed from a vision from Founding Artistic Director Rulan Tangen to create global Indigenous contemporary performing arts opportunities, Dancing Earth is rooted with one foot in Yelamu – occupied Ohlone territory also known as San Francisco, California and the other foot in Ogaa Po Ogeh – occupied Tewa territory also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Care. Liberation. Now.: Changing Shape, Shaping Change
Dancing Care In April 2021, right after we’d both been vaccinated, I began to meet weekly with a dancer friend and collaborator. We met, keeping our masks on, in my […]
